Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] [verb] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Association has fully participated in this new initiative to draw together opinion and comment from across the widest spectrum of our industry , in a bid to provide the industry with a united voice to Government . |
| 2 | For about 15 years Lindsey averaged 20 airshows per season with the ‘ 108 , and the aircraft has probably participated in more airshows than any other UK warbird . |
| 3 | changed practice had yet to begin in many areas of the LEA procedures . |
| 4 | It has not proved straightforward to obtain the services of appropriate staff , and although work has now commenced in each of the areas mentioned , it is difficult to predict when development will be complete and thus give a firm date as to when information will be available to allow colleges to plan for the introduction of new courses in session 1989–90 . |
| 5 | The pattern of shopping has also changed in that the shopper has , for most goods , been prepared to dispense with the personal service of the shopkeeper , and self-service and self-selection have been readily accepted in the interests of lower overheads and more competitive prices . |
| 6 | By buying an index future , the arbitrageur has indirectly invested in all the shares in the index . |
| 7 | It is brutally clear that the private sector has already invested in those places and activities in DRAs where profitable returns on capital may be obtained . |
| 8 | Ten years later , on a visit to Burnley and practising the skills of the oral historian , I talked to my grandmother , and she , puzzled , told me that Edna had never worked in any office , had in fact been apprenticed to a dry cleaning firm that did tailoring and mending . |
| 9 | The band has also competed in many contests over the years having won many trophies . |
| 10 | By early 1832 the insurrection in Jamaica had so underlined in many abolitionists ' minds the presumption that slavery was the source of social disorder they unambiguously demanded ‘ nothing short of the total and immediate Abolition of British Colonial Slavery ’ . |
| 11 | A revaluation in Scotland in 1985 caused a political furore and justified the general caution with which governments had generally proceeded in this matter . |
| 12 | Rain had obviously driven in some time during the night and the dried splashes were clearly visible on the tiled floor . |
| 13 | Add to these statistics that translations have now appeared in some 850 languages and it will be apparent that , except in a few notable cases , rarity is not often a factor to be reckoned with . |
| 14 | Governments of all persuasions have always bought in some services , but this Government have taken the process further . |
| 15 | So Palace officials have now put in another rush order with the Gloucestershire company that makes the ties . |
| 16 | Does that mean that Anna has actually slept in that too ? |
| 17 | Sir Duncan Nichol has recently moved in this direction ( letter to regional general managers , 22 Dec 1992 ) . |
| 18 | By the mid-century , the novelist 's art has entirely changed in this respect : extensive description of living space is no longer the rare exception but the rule . |
| 19 | The horrors of the night had somehow resulted in this bizarre inner focusing . |
| 20 | It is a question of trust , and if the quantity of information now shared through the clearinghouses is any measure , then the clearinghouses have generally succeeded in this respect . |
| 21 | A similar tendency to expand the concept of compulsion is to be discovered in the majority judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada in Eadie v. Township of Brantford ( 1967 ) 63 D.L.R. ( 2d ) 561 ( though events of a more dramatic character have since occurred in that jurisdiction , to which I will refer in a moment ) . |
| 22 | At last , from the thin end of the egg , a rounded point appeared , and , three evenings later , in the bath , the egg had suddenly split in half . |
| 23 | The men who had marched north with Duncan to dispose of his dangerous half-brother at Tarbatness had mostly died in that battle . |
| 24 | Stewart and Tait began with the idea that the great majority of mankind had always believed in some fashion in life after death . |
| 25 | Apart from oceanic areas such as Iceland , fissure or basaltic flood eruptions have also occurred in several important continental areas : the western United States , India , South Africa and South America . |
| 26 | But it questions whether pollution levels have truly fallen in that period , since the figures are based on companies ' revised interpretations of what they are required to report . |
| 27 | Musica Reservata , perhaps the most influential ( and certainly the most controversial ) ensemble that Britain has ever produced in this field , began in London 's Hampstead during the 1960s , when record shops were stocked with ‘ folk ’ and ‘ ethnic ’ music ; today the heady perfume of those years can still be caught in Tony Bingham 's emporium of rare and unusual musical instruments in that quarter of the city ( illus.4 ) . |
| 28 | Citing the EC example , he said : ‘ It was Mrs Thatcher who signed the Single European Act , which is the biggest transfer of sovereignty which this government has ever undertaken in any period of our history . ’ |
| 29 | BA has never engaged in such a campaign and the allegations made against us to the contrary are totally untrue . |
| 30 | But compared with the Monnet ideal in France , or the corporate strategy of Japan , Britain had scarcely planned in any meaningful sense at all . |